The Most Powerful May Not Be a Single Individual Here’s where it gets interesting. If imperial imaginaries consisted of ideas ...

Through such thrilling if subtle reformulations of familiar histories, usually cordoned off among the achievements of the ...

The Apadana, which was used as a gathering hall for receptions, was the largest building in Persepolis. A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), ...

Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to ...

Even if there is ever a secular regime there, the majority faith will remain Islam and chances of a grand revival of ...

The 1979 Islamic Revolution appeared to represent a radical rupture in Iranian foreign policy. The Shah’s pro-Western alignment gave way to revolutionary export and ‘neither East nor West’ ...

Unlike many Jewish communities across the Soviet Union, the Jews of the Caucasus managed to preserve their identity. Shabbat was kept quietly, Judaism lived on discreetly.

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...